Diego Pablo Simeone left the Ciutat de Valencia very angry, again hitting an opponent who always complicates him and receiving the tie with a controversial penalty in the 88th minute. Cholo was expelled and will not be on the bench against Betis.
How did you see the Lodi penalty?
I do not interpret anything. We have to improve and not apologize for the referee or for his penalty goal, or for the other penalty, for 200 kicks to João Félix that had no consequence … We have to work, improve and try to get out of this moment, a negative thing brings others . The team scores goals, but other situations hurt us.
Do you understand that that is hand?
Everything the referee does on the field is understood by him. You are here to comment, there are the rules … Nothing will change no matter how much you think. Don’t make me talk… The team has to grow and we can’t excuse ourselves either because of the penalty, or because of the blows to João, or because of the 70 yellow cards we received… There were good passages in the first half, then in the second as well.
Without those plays would they have won?
I don’t know, they could have scored the goal elsewhere. You can see everything on TV, our mistakes too, the fouls against João, the foul against Cunha when he was about to shoot… They are not excuses. We have to improve urgently.
He previously spoke at Movistar LaLiga
Expulsion. “I must have done something that the referee thought was wrong as a result of the game.”
Penalty. “If the referee charged a penalty, it was surely a penalty.”
Few occasions. “I saw another game, conditioned and starting very well. We did 30 very good minutes, the penalty appeared out of nowhere, in the second we improved, the goal arrived, his counterattacks had no consequence and then the penalty that equalized the game.”
Thicket above. “We were looking to find the right moment for the goal, he arrived with Cunha.”
Cunha opens. “He is working well, we need him, he has a lot of energy and his goal is welcome.”
